273 search results for “organic chemistry” in the Staff website
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Femke ReidsmaFaculteit Archeologie
f.h.reidsma@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1680
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Willie PeijnenburgScience
peijnenburg@cml.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Elmer MauritsScience
e.maurits@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Flu stops when you block the enzyme that cleaves off virus particles
A flu virus could cause a pandemic. And then we would be poorly armed because flu viruses are starting to become resistant to flu medications like Tamiflu. Chemist Merijn Vriends successfully worked on an improved version of such medications. He will be awarded his doctorate on September 12th.
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Lies BouwmanScience
bouwman@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4550
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Sebastian PomplunScience
s.j.pomplun@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4651
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Evani LachmansinghScience
e.t.lachmansingh@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Alexander KrosScience
a.kros@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4234
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Marie-Jetta den OtterICLON
m.den.otter@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1672
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Jaap ReijlingFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
j.reijling@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9400
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Redesigned ECOLe website - better organized and more information
Education
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Arjan de KoningScience
koning@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5653
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Nicola ThomeScience
n.u.thome@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4395
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Lars JeukenScience
l.j.c.jeuken@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4755
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Sander van KasterenScience
s.i.van.kasteren@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Haifeng ZhouScience
h.zhou@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Eredoctoraten voor Bonnie Honig, Eliot Higgins en Kelly Chibale
Leiden University will be conferring three honorary doctorates in its special anniversary year. They will be awarded to Eliot Higgins, truth finder and founder of Bellingcat, Bonnie Honig, expert in feminist theory and legal theory, and Kelly Chibale, professor of organic chemistry, who works on prevention…
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Sarita KoendjbiharieFaculty of Humanities
s.r.koendjbiharie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9535
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Apply for the Lorentz Center Chemistry Workshop competition
Research
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Making the invisible visible with ‘click chemistry’
Sander van Kasteren (Professor of Molecular Immunology) makes the invisible visible. He will explain more in his inaugural lecture.
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How bittersweet sugar chemistry targets pathogens
The challenge is considerable, but so is the satisfaction when it succeeds: creating complex sugar molecules that play a role in biology.
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Helping students with micro-macro thinking in chemistry
How do classroom demonstration experiments help students learn chemical reasoning? Marie-Jetta den Otter, PhD student at ICLON, researched this. She defends her thesis on 6 December.
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Stewart McDowallScience
s.c.mcdowall@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ton KoopmanFaculty of Humanities
a.g.m.koopman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1480
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Michiel VeldhuisScience
m.p.veldhuis@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1494
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Dirk-Jan KokScience
d.d.kok@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to an AI model (and rightly so)
Not experiments and lab coats, but computers and artificial intelligence: this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the inventors of the groundbreaking AI model, AlphaFold. This programme accurately predicts protein structures based on their genetic code—a crucial step in understanding biological…
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Natalia Ortiz – Winner of the 2019 - 2020 KNCV Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology thesis prize
Natalia Ortiz (Division of Drug Discovery and Safety) has been awarded the 2019-2020 PhD-thesis prize by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology, from the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV-MCCB). The KNCV-MCCB thesis prize is a biannual award which is granted to the best PhD thesis…
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Francesco BudaScience
f.buda@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5723
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Roxanne KieltykaScience
r.e.kieltyka@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4441
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Madeline KavanaghScience
m.e.kavanagh@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3527
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Mario van der SteltScience
m.van.der.stelt@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4768
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International Symposium on Circuit Topology Organized by Leiden University
For the third consecutive year, LACDR organized the international symposium on topology, Circuit Topology III, on November 29, 2023. The event aimed to bring together experts from diverse fields, including mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, and biomedical sciences, to discuss cutting-edge…
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In memoriam Harold V.J. Linnartz 1965 – 2023: Unlocking the Chemistry of the Heavens
With great sadness we share the news that Prof. Harold Linnartz passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Sunday 31 December 2023. We are all in shock, and our thoughts are with his wife and children, other family, and friends. Harold was at the heart of our institute, as a researcher, as a supervisor,…
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Young Hae ChoiScience
y.h.choi@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4510
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Flentrop organ in Academy Building turns 25: ‘It’s a whole orchestra’
The organ in the Academy Building is 25 years old. University organist Jan Verschuren and tuner Bert Crama talk about the long history of university organs, improvising with short cortèges and their love for this organ.
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‘I am curious and full of passion for understanding molecular chemistry’
Since May, Assistant professor BioTherapeutics Lu Su works in our faculty. Although she is still young, she already worked in many different fields and co-operated on two publications in big scientific journals. How did she become so successful and what motivates her to keep researching the possibilities…
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Remus DameScience
rtdame@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5605
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Tessa HagensScience
t.m.s.hagens@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275706
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Modified caffeine molecules help medical research move forward
Before researchers can develop targeted drugs, they need to know exactly how a disease works. Biochemist Bert Beerkens created molecules that allow them to find out. He used caffeine as the basis for new molecules that enable research into certain receptor proteins on cells.
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Jorrit SmitFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.p.smit@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Anthe JanssenScience
a.p.a.janssen@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4362
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Curing diseases with lab-grown organs
Organs and tissues grown in the lab may in the future be able to cure people with organ failures. Micha Drukker, professor of Stem Cells, Developmental Biology and Technology for Innovative Drug Research, is convinced that the use of stem cells will make this possible. He will deliver his inaugural…
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Sander WezenbergScience
s.j.wezenberg@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4541
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Berend Gagestein
Science
b.gagestein@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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AI in Chemistry: minisymposium
Conference
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In Memoriam Johan Lugtenburg
The fastest chemical reaction in the universe takes place inside our eyes.
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Leiden chemists discover new ways in which single-celled organisms organise their DNA
It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that structure DNA. Now, Leiden PhD candidate Samuel Schwab has found that the histones in these organisms are much more diverse than previously thought. Schwab and his colleagues describe…
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In Memoriam: Robert Louw 1936-2023
On 18 February 2023, our esteemed former colleague Robert Louw passed away. Rob was 86 years old.
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Anna-Alexandra MarholdFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.a.marhold@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3350